Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,679,626 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Automated testing.


Robotic systems for high efficiency materials testing Articles on Materials testing include:
  • ASTM International
  • Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
  • European Reference Materials
  • Nadcap
 can be configured precisely to customer needs. Diverse materials can be automatically tested. Specimens are loaded in the racking system and the machine essentially runs unattended from there. Typical models consist of a horizontal tensile testing machine testing machine

Machine used in materials science to determine the properties of a material. Machines have been devised to measure tensile strength, strength in compression, shear, and bending (see strength of materials), ductility, hardness, impact strength (
, a Zymark robot, specimen racks, a dimensional measuring station, an optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.  system for the pin stamped samples (bar code reading is also available), and the controlling Test Navigator software. Information collected is said to be most often directly and seamlessly entered into a customer's manufacturing system software. The company's scalable Test Navigator software is said to be user-friendly and flexible. Data can be fed right into the user's ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  system so that quality and other documentation can be produced in real time for all departments. Operation of the system is said to be simple and efficient, and can also include other nondestructive non·de·struc·tive  
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a process that does not result in damage to the material under investigation or testing.



non
 tests as part of the test cycle. One system is set up to measure specimen width and thickness, hardness and sample strain during the test. (Tinius Olsen)

Circle 106 on card
COPYRIGHT 2005 Lippincott & Peto, Inc.
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2005, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Title Annotation:Suppliers Showcase: Instruments
Publication:Rubber World
Date:Oct 1, 2005
Words:179
Previous Article:Relative viscometer.(Suppliers Showcase: Instruments)
Next Article:Engineering rubbers.(Suppliers Showcase: Materials)
Topics:



Related Articles
New rheometer speeds testing.
Testing & QC. (new automated testing equipment to be shown at the 1997 National Plastics Exposition)(NPE '97)
The Latest Instruments For Testing & QC.
IMPACT: Which Test to Use? Which Instrument to Buy?(Brief Article)
Testing & QC. (What to See at NPE 2003).(plastics industry)(Directory)
Designing for impedance testing: maintaining signal integrity on impedance-controlled PCBs is easier when the design accounts for the test method....
ATExpo Conference finalized.(Industry News)
Testing & measuring instruments: there was no shortage of new developments in product inspection devices and instruments for testing color and...
FSCT launches new Advancements in Coatings Series; announces Call for Papers for first two programs.(FSCT News)
Testing & QC.(What to See at NPE 2006)

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles